Devon Ostendorf

Hi Dan,

It looks like I spoke too soon. Sorry to hear your experiment turned out similarly to how I (originally) feared it might. As I’ve said many times prior, email delivery overall is a black hole of misery and I am foolish for even getting involved tangentially via this plugin. But such is life, right?!

At least we’ll get your scheduled delivery stuff worked out here before too long..

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Ben,

When you have a chance, would you please send me your email address (my email address is my first name at devonostendorf dot com), so I have it when I’m ready to send you some code to test?

Thanks,
Devon

Hi oekoplatt,

Thank you for being so patient as well as continuing to provide additional info about your situation.

At long last, I will be working on the next version of Post Notif this weekend, and adding something similar to the “batching” of notifications that Post Notification had (and others still have), is in my plans. If you’re willing and able to help test this, I’d love to send you a pre-release version when I have one ready.

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Dan,

First of all, let me say that I do appreciate your considerable patience as it relates to the long-anticipated next version, where post notification scheduling will actually behave logically. Speaking of which, I will be working, in earnest, on it this weekend and will send you an email with more details and a request.

As to your question about whether your heimhenge.com email address will work with Post Notif when sending from sky-lights.org, I suspect it will not or, if it does, your successful delivery rate will be low. I say this, as an admitted email ignoramus, because I believe that 1) email servers generally prefer to send emails from accounts already configured to send email from the current domain and 2) email servers generally prefer to receive email from addresses with domain suffixes matching the domain of the sending server. Now, I know that people have had success using Post Notif with Gmail and other webmail addresses as their sending address (and they are obviously not hosting their blogs at gmail.com) so I’m not sure precisely what would happen if you try to use your heimhenge.com email address from sky-lights.org; I’d suggest you do try just to see what happens! You can certainly use me as a test recipient if that would be helpful.

Having said all of that, though, I can’t believe GoDaddy actually wants to charge you $50/year for the privilege of sending and receiving email; I have had some truly low-budget hosting over the years and they have never charged me anything for email, so I wonder what you get for that?

Thanks,
Devon

Hi David,

Thanks for taking Post Notif for a spin!

Your question made me realize that the FAQ has a glaring issue; a badly-quoted string is being interpreted literally by the browser, so it is not showing you anything useful (unless you happen to look at the page source!). Let me make a new attempt at it, here:

7. @@postteaser
* Description: Post’s content up to <!--more-->

Just to be clear, it does NOT allow you to specify a number of lines to show.

Thanks for identifying this; I will fix the FAQ with the new release.

Thanks,
Devon

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Devon Ostendorf.

Hi mgroenw,

Thanks for trying out Local Like And Share!

At the moment, there is not an easy way to change out the icons.

If you are comfortable with CSS as well as familiar with how the Font Awesome icon set works, you could export a new Font Awesome icon set, with the ones you want to use (saving them to the ../plugins/local-like-and-share/public/font directory), and then change the lines 49-53, as well as lines 102 and 103 in …/plugins/local-like-and-share/public/css/local-like-and-share-public.css (you’d also need to minify this file since the plugin uses the minified file [the “regular” one is provided strictly for human readability]) to use your new icon(s).

I will say, however, that I’ve received a couple of requests for this sort of functionality and it is something I am considering for a future version.

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Ben,

I took a look at the WP Statistics plugin’s code and it appears to be handling prefixing of its custom tables identically to how Post Notif does. So I’m shifting focus to considering JavaScript/AJAX-related issues.

If you still have the subscriber row (which you manually created) in the [prefix]_post_notif_subscriber table, what happens when you attempt to re-subscribe that same email address (via the widget)? Do you get any other message or does it still hang with “Processing…”?

How about if you input a blank email address into the widget and hit the “Subscribe” button?

Thanks,
Devon